similar to: Quote me on that [puppet best practice]

In the normal override method, you can change the value of a parameter, but can you unset a parameter? file { "/etc/somefile": mode => 644, owner => "dude" } File ["/etc/somefile"] { mode => unset } ??

Hello everyone, A long time ago, I posted the Stanford Best Practices and I''ve gone through and updated it today. I''d like to have people go through it and see if we can strip out some Stanford specific stuff and tag this as an official best practice. I think an official best practice will be important as more and more people consider making shareable modules, etc (mostly

Was file bucketing changed as part of this release or is this a bug? When I look in my bucket folder I see: drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 4096 Mar 17 00:04 5222e054e7bc6248f2e9b9146f75aff5 drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 4096 Mar 17 00:04 3255ad7efedebfd3eccbba74845002a1 drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 4096 Mar 17 00:04 f8569b1c57819072c37b36bd3814e328 drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 4096 Mar

I''ve published the tarballs and whatever bad packages my publishing system knows how to create; look for more official debs, sun packages, and rpms in the near future, hopefully. Note that this is mostly a bug-fix release, and I expect it to be a pretty painless upgrade for most everyeone (but please, test before upgrading). Here''s the changelog: Compile times now

I''m sure everyone has read and committed the Puppet Best Practice to memory by now (I joke). One of the things I''ve written in there deals with trailing commas, which I adopted from the way I used to do multiline in Perl, but I''ve noticed that most people don''t tend to do that in Puppet. Should I revise this or should we all start using the trailing commas?

I teach biology, and would like to show the students how to use R for some statistical assignments. One of those is to make a kite diagram (for example as seen in http://www.medinavalleycentre.org.uk/images/Bembri1.jpg). Is there any way to create one using R? I did a help.search("kite") and looked on the r-project HP with no luck. Previously when the course was taugh the students have

Anyone ever migrated the puppetca to a different host? What are the steps that are involved?

Is there a way to tell the puppetmaster that I want to import all modules rather than listing each one individually?

I like the Stanford Best Practices guide for puppet. One thing I didn''t see it address was handling of separate environments, for example Dev, Test, Staging, Production. My thoughts on this so far, are: brainstorm #1) Handle environment differences with metadata: node devProductName01 { $env = "dev" include ProductName-webserver } node testProductName01 {

file { "/var/log/syslog": target => "/var/log/messages" } generates the following error: err: //henson/stanford/syslog/file=/var/log/syslog: Failed to retrieve current state: undefined method `should'' for false:FalseClass

Hello, I am currently experiencing a bit of a quandry with how to specify default configuration applications to generic nodes. Here is an example setup: Classes: Class A Class B inherits Class A Class C inherits Class B Problem: I have unique hosts (nodes) X and Y and a bunch of other standard hosts. I would like X and Y to be able to override attributes in Class C (thus inherit class C) but

Hi everybody, recently I had to teach a course on Cox model, of which I am not a specialist, to an audience of medical epidemiologists. Not a good idea you might say.. anyway, someone in the audience was very hostile. At some point, he sayed that Cox model was useless, since all you have to do is count who dies and who survives, divide by the sample sizes and compute a relative risk, and if there

Dear everyone, I would like to create a kite chart in which I plot densities (width of the vertical kites) in relation to sediment depth (on reversed y-axis) for 6 different locations (Distances from seep site, on x-axis on top of the plot). The dataset I would like to use is: Distance_from_seep_site Sedimentdepth Density 1100 0 107.8 1100 1 264.6 1100 2 284.2

Hello Puppet users, I had talked with Luke about this scenario and was wondering how others would/are handling something like this. Imagine a scenario where all servers will have a specific postfix configuration except for a server or two or three. So, you want to define a file "/etc/postfix/main.cf" and specify the source from your dist tree. But for those exceptional servers,

Besides using an exec line with a case statement(to determine the specific os''s disable command), does puppet come with a buit in method to disable a user account? Thanks!. --------------------------------- Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you''re surfing. _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list

Hello folks, I''ve blended/updated the Glossary of Terms (<http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/GlossaryOfTerms>). It seems the definition of "manifests" is a bit different amongst members. Some people consider a "manifest" to be a configuration file written in puppet, e.g. any .pp file. But at my organization, we''ve considered the totality

Anyone using the rrdgraph report on the puppetmaster on Debian stable? I''m trying to get this working and not getting far. I even took rrdtool and librrd0-dev from backports and I still get the same problem. It seems that the rrdfiles are being somewhat created, but nevertheless, the puppetmaster isn''t happy and keeps spewing: err: Report rrdgraph failed: Could not create

Hello community, We are running puppetmaster 0.22.3 with 45 servers attached and we are seeing a lot of messages that say: (err): Could not describe /ssh/sshd_config.RedHat: End of file reached: We were seeing a lot of this with 0.22.1 as well. Interestingly, during the stretch where we were running 0.22.2 (most of April until 2 days ago) we didn''t see this error at all or very

--On Monday, May 14, 2007 9:16 PM -0700 Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> wrote: > ObPuppet: we ramping up our deployment this week to around 200 hosts. So > far everything has been going smoothly. We don''t have nearly as many and yet, we see occasional errors ("End of file reached") which seems to indicate the network cutting out. I can''t imagine what would

I turned on reporting the other day and I''m seeing alot of these when puppet runs. Especially during times when nothing is going on (middle of the night etc) Tue Dec 11 12:34:48 -0500 2007 //base/puppet/puppet::client/Service[puppet]/ensure (notice): ensure changed ''stopped'' to ''running'' It''s also quite odd that puppet when it runs it thinks